World Week for Animals in Laboratories 2007:
TAKE ACTION!!
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| UConn Health Center kills monkeys Visit our campaign page for info about UCHC and how to help end publicly funded research on monkeys. Bristol Myers-Squibb has blood on its hands Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (BMS) Wallingford, CT location currently confines (see pages 19 & 20) thousands of animals including beagles, monkeys, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits and countless mice and rats. The animals in BMS’s labs are mutilated (e.g. rabbits are intentionally made to bleed by cutting their nails back to their quicks (Wong et al 2007) (see here for example), monkeys are killed to harvest their brains (Kostich et al 2004)) and given dangerous experimental drugs for which analgesics to subdue the pain and distress they cause are never administered (see pages 9-30). In the name of “good science,” these sensitive, intelligent individuals are killed or left to die as researchers stand by and record the effects. Add to that BMS’s complicity in the killing of an additional 500 animals every day by their continued customer relationship with contract testing firm Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) whose employees have been videotaped punching puppies in the face and are currently being sued by the NJSPCA for animal cruelty (1). Companies like BMS are signing the contracts and cutting the checks that allow these massive killings to continue. ***What can you do?*** 1. Boycott Bristol-Myers products 2. Tell Bristol-Myers to DROP HLS! 1. Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Middlesex County. Docket # MID-L-000024-06. Hartford Hospital is hell for animals Hartford Hospital, in concert with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, administers a program called the Advance Trauma Operative Management course (ATOM). ATOM includes a 3-hour lab session during which medical students manage fourteen different traumatic injuries that are intentionally inflicted in live adult pigs. The animals must suffer through 14 penetrating injuries (see left column of page 472) such as stab wounds, “to numerous organs in the abdomen and chest, including the bowel, bladder, kidney, ureter, pancreas, duodenum, stomach, diaphragm, liver, inferior vena cava, spleen and heart." Hartford Hospital uses five pigs per month in this series of highly invasive surgical procedures at the end of which they are killed. According to documents obtained from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (see page 5) the facility regularly confines over 100 pigs for use in this program. They also use mice, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits and sheep in various other forms of experimentation. For instance, in the work of Dr. David Nicolau, mice are given blood disorders and then infected with various bacteria and killed. ***What can you do?*** 1. Tell Hartford Hospital to end live pig trauma courses!! 1. Jacobs, Lenworth M. MD et al. Development and Evaluation of the Advanced Trauma Operative Management Course. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care. 55(3):471-479, September 2003. Behind closed doors at UConn-Storrs In 2002, UConn (Storrs) received the second highest fine ever levied by the USDA for violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act ($129,500). The USDA complaint against UConn documented 99 separate violations involving severe animal suffering -- including rabbits who had received no veterinary care and no painkillers after UConn had severed their spinal cords. Yet, despite the above sanctioning from the USDA and the University’s pledge to remedy the problems, UConn-Storrs was cited for over 30 new violations between 2002 and 2004. At any given time, there are over 5,000 animals being confined at UConn for research. The experiments that these animals are used in are funded by both state and federal tax dollars. Hundreds of baby mice and rats are killed just for their brains in the Department of Physiology & Neurobiology. In addition to the rats and rabbits that are mutilated and killed regularly in the Psychology Department, one researcher gets paid with our tax dollars to assist with neuroanatomy experiments that involve killing dozens of monkeys at the University of California-Davis. |
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| Photos from a 2005 undercover investigation at contract testing firm and primate supplier. Covance Laboratories. The macaques above are used for drug testing at Covance before they are eventually sent to labs like the one at UMC and UCHC to be abused and killed. |
All sentient animals (human and
non-) have an inherent value that
exists outside of their utility to
others. We recognize this value
and afford these individuals the
right to be treated in a manner
that is respectful of it. To act in
a way that reduces animals
(human and non-) to mere
resources for others to exploit
for food, experimentation,
clothing or entertainment is a
violation of this right and it is our
obligation to insure that such
exploitation does not continue.
non-) have an inherent value that
exists outside of their utility to
others. We recognize this value
and afford these individuals the
right to be treated in a manner
that is respectful of it. To act in
a way that reduces animals
(human and non-) to mere
resources for others to exploit
for food, experimentation,
clothing or entertainment is a
violation of this right and it is our
obligation to insure that such
exploitation does not continue.